#  Jews Work in Concert to Save Torahs in New Orleans 

 





September 14, 2005

 

 

Source: The Jerusalem Post

[http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126664382324](http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126664382324)

On September 14, 2005 *The Jerusalem Post* reported, "Some 25 Torah scrolls in the New Orleans area, jeopardized by Hurricane Katrina, were rescued by a number of Jewish groups acting in concert. A makeshift coalition of representatives from the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, national leadership from the Reform movement, rabbis from Baton Rouge and New Orleans and local law-enforcement officials were responsible for the effort. 'Among the 25 we saved were also a few that were rescued from the Holocaust, and here they've survived a second horrific disaster,' said Rabbi David Saperstein, the director of the Reform movement's Washington-based Religious Action Center. Chabad officials, working with both Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers, rescued at least 15 additional scrolls."





 

 

 



 

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